{"product_id":"living-surfaces-abelardo-gil-fournier-9780262547956","title":"Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat if every vista, every island--indeed, every geographical feature on Earth--could be viewed as an art object? In \u003ci\u003eLiving Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. \u003ci\u003eLiving Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, \u003ci\u003eLiving Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abelardo Gil-Fournier,Jussi Parikka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262547953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262547956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d","brand":"Abelardo Gil-Fournier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47424999719167,"sku":"9780262547956","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5aed2e43-c98c-47df-b131-42f79d34b0fc.jpg?v=1761536307","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-surfaces-abelardo-gil-fournier-9780262547956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}